Visual impairment awareness training course

Visual impairment awareness training course, Cyngor Gwynedd, Caernarfon 16.9.2024

Fourteen care workers in Gwynedd joined our visual impairment awareness training course to learn how to work together with people living with sight loss.

The course leaders were Dafydd Eckley and Nick Thomas - both working for the Cymdeithas Deillion Gogledd Cymru - North Wales Society of The Blind.

Dafydd began by explaining that at least 400 people in Gwynedd are registered as blind or partially blind.

He also explained that the function of Cymdeithas Deillion Gogledd Cymru - North Wales Society of The Blind is to help to maximise the visual abilities of each client - both children and adults.

He gave details about some of the many eye conditions that exist and the help that is available to everyone.

Nick explained about his own visual impairment and praised the work of the Society’s rehabilitation workers who are able to provide support to clients in their own homes or at our centre on Bangor High Street.

Nick said: “Our support is available to everyone. Each individual has different needs."

Nick and Dafydd showed the various equipment available to people living with sight loss before giving everyone on the course the opportunity to have a practice session guiding a person experiencing sight loss by wearing a blindfold.

Everyone gave positive feedback to the training shared by Dafydd and Nick and were of the opinion that they had learned a lot during the session.

Cymdeithas Deillion Gogledd Cymru - North Wales Society of The Blind offers similar awareness training courses to any organisation, company, society etc. who want to know more about working with people living with sight loss.

If you would like to know more, please contact Dafydd Eckley or Nick Thomas on 01248 353604 or admin@nwsb.org.uk or come and see us for a chat at our office at 325, Stryd Fawr, Bangor, Gwynedd.